SKYWARD TRAIL

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 9

SKYWARD TRAIL

WILEY POST CRASHES i FORTUNATE ESCAPE, t MACHINE DAMAGED; • (United Press Association-— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (Received 9 a.m.) NEW Y r ORK, July 20. A message from Flat, Alaska, states that Air Wiley Post, American...jojund-the-world flier, crashed there late today in the airport field. He was V not hurt. •

The aeroplane “nosed” overh and the propeller w r as bent and the landing gear damaged. He soon effected repairs and loft at 7.28 this morning, landing at Fairbanks at 10.22 a.m. The airman lost seven hours,.in his flight over Nome, Alaska, RESCUE COMPLETED. , MATTERN TAKEN TO NOME. ISOLATED FOE SIX WEEKS. : (Received 9 a.m.) ; .a NEW YOEE x Mulf;2p. A message from , Nome, "Alaska, states that Mr Mattern, round-the-world flier, whose aeroplane "was wrecked six weeks ago iu :c Siberia, landed there, today in a mWftipCflown by the Russian aviator, Levanesky. LINDBEROHsIIEIJhArP;j> FOG ON LAMADQB. COAST:(Received f 1,30 a.mv) ■ T-? CARTWRIGHT .(Labrador), July 21. Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh hopped off for Greenland today. They later landed- at Hopedale, Labrador, 150 mij.es up live.-, coast from here, after, a two-hours’-flight, owing to fog. ... ' , j, ; > PLANE FALLS INTO RIVER. COURAGEOUS ROADMENDEHTHREE OCCUPANTS .BAILED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) ' ” r : PARIS, July 20. ‘ An aeroplane crashed in the river near Rlioims, ' rendering three occupants uhennseious. ’A roadraender dived three, times: and rescues,gH from the cabin in which, they were,(tapped.